The Ballad of Britain: How Music Captured The Soul Of A Nation by Will Hodgkinson

The Ballad of Britain: How Music Captured The Soul Of A Nation

Will Hodgkinson

312 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction music adventurous informative slow-paced
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In 1903, the Victorian composer Cecil Sharp began a decade-long journey to collect folk songs that, he believed, captured the spirit of Great Britain.A century later, with the musical and cultural map of the country transformed, writer and journal...

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